Was a bit confused that "Category n Hurricane" means exactly cat n, whereas "Magnitude m Earthquake" seems to mean at least magnitude m.
Days Since Incident – tracker of natural disasters on Earth
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#12Was a bit confused that "Category n Hurricane" means exactly cat n, whereas "Magnitude m Earthquake" seems to mean at least magnitude m.
Not even that, really? It claims "6 days since last Cat 4 Hurricane", yet yesterday a Cat 4 was bearing down on Florida. The date used on that one seems to be the day Ian became an official tropical depression … not the last day it was a Cat 4.
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#13a tsunami of 0.09m tall hardly qualifies as a "disaster" surely? https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazel/view/hazards/tsunami/event-m...
but it still ended up killing 2 people. I have a hard time imagining how that works.
According to the "quick bulletin" on the bottom, this seems to be a downstream effect of a magnitude 6.9 earthquake that occurred. I suppose that will generally be the case for a tsunami, something usually drives it. In this case, it appears they're assigning 0 deaths (or stats) to the tsunami, but 2 deaths for the "total effects."
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#14More stuff to worry about. My favourite!
For me it had a calming effect. Natural disasters appear to be relatively common
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#15Mudslides (from wildfires) caused by the hurricane that 'hit' Southern California a few weeks back presumably killed at least one person - that person is still missing in Forest Falls.
Maybe a mudslides/landslides category?
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#16a tsunami of 0.09m tall hardly qualifies as a "disaster" surely? https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazel/view/hazards/tsunami/event-m...
but it still ended up killing 2 people. I have a hard time imagining how that works.
Even if the wave isn't very tall, if it is fast-moving it can knock you off balance. Once you're down, wave doesn't have to be very tall to drown you. There's also the fact that rip currents are commonplace phenomena on beaches all over the world, so you combine that with a single unexpectedly fast wave and it's easy to believe a few people would die.
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#17a tsunami of 0.09m tall hardly qualifies as a "disaster" surely? https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazel/view/hazards/tsunami/event-m...
yeah what the hell, that is like 4 inches
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#18a tsunami of 0.09m tall hardly qualifies as a "disaster" surely? https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazel/view/hazards/tsunami/event-m...
Sorry, where do you see this called a “disaster”?
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#19Hasn't it just been 1 day since a Cat 4 hurricane? it says 6.